Canadian and world cinema lost a true giant Sunday with the death of film pioneer and former National Film Board of Canada filmmaker Roman Kroitor.

Born on December 12, 1926 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Kroitor made enormous contributions to filmmaking during his tenure at the NFB in the 1950s and 1960s, developing the IMAX giant-screen format at the NFB’s Montreal studio.

John Coates, one of the producers behind the animated feature adaption The Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine, has passed away. He was in his eighties. He died at home in Kent, England on Sunday following a battle with cancer.

Longtime Hollywood marketing executive Geoffrey Ammer, who worked with such animated films as Toy Story 2, Mulan andA Bug’s Life, died Sunday morning at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California. He was 62.

French film and theatre actor and director Pierre Mondy, heard in two 1980s Asterix cartoon movies, died Saturday morning at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris from a relapsed lymphoma. He was 77. He voiced Caius Obtus in Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar (Asterix vs. Caesar; 1985) and Cetinlapsus in Asterix Chez Le Bretons (Asterix in Britain; 1986).

Former Disney senior executive Bob Lambert, who helped the Mouse House move from film to digital production, died suddenly Friday of unnamed causes at his Glendale, California home, his family announced Monday night. He was 55.